Documenta : politics and art
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Documenta : politics and art
Prestel, c2021
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Exhibition catalogue
Catalog of the exhibition held at Deutsches Historisches Museum, June 18, 2021-January 9, 2022
Other authors: Lars Bang Larsen, Dorlis Blume, Alexia Pooth, Julia Voss, Dorothee Wierling
Bibliography: p. 291-295
List of exhibits: p. 296-322
Includes index
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Description
Despite its name, documenta's primary concerns are neither with the simple documentation of individual artists and their work nor with developments in art history, but instead with providing a historical space where art reflects and comments on social constellations and political or social change, or demands it through art interventions. documenta is not only a historical testimony and event, but also a show at which-through the medium of art-self-interpretation becomes the catalyst for debate and historical change. For the first time, this book places the history of documenta in the context of the political, cultural and societal development of Germany during the second half of the twentieth century, illustrating how art and history can be explored in terms of a mutually dependent relationship.
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